Marie Thompson
@joyousnoises.bsky.social
University worker. Tinnitus/noise/sonic cyberfeminisms. Currently writing about sound reproduction and reproductive crisis.
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It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize
January 3, 2026 at 7:06 AM
It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize
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“The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job.”
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
December 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
“The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job.”
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Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Up the BL workers.
‘A sound archivist told me he and his colleagues could earn more in the private sector but they work here for less pay because “we believe in what we do.”’
Anna Aslanyan on the picket line at the British Library, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan on the picket line at the British Library, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Up the BL workers.
I'm currently producing some teaching involving both jazz and disco and it's really bringing home the proximity of music to the "make/let die"
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I'm currently producing some teaching involving both jazz and disco and it's really bringing home the proximity of music to the "make/let die"
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📣📣📣 fees-only PhD funding for Music at the OU 📣📣📣
We're offering a PhD fees-only studentship for someone to begin studying with us in October 2026. Mode of study can be full-time or part-time, including distance learning. Open to any area of musicology that aligns with our expertise in the department. See fass.open.ac.uk/music/resear... #PhD
The Open University
Applicants to the Music PhD programme will have the opportunity to apply for an Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC studentship. Awards for UK residents cover all tuition fees and provide a maintenance grant a...
fass.open.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
📣📣📣 fees-only PhD funding for Music at the OU 📣📣📣
My dear, dear baritone wielding friend has a new album out and it is [complementary] absolutely demonic rekemrecords.bandcamp.com/album/best-w...
Best Wishes,, by Kar Pouzi
7 track album
rekemrecords.bandcamp.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
My dear, dear baritone wielding friend has a new album out and it is [complementary] absolutely demonic rekemrecords.bandcamp.com/album/best-w...
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Ok fine.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Ok fine.
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Google AI is like an Eric Adams quote generator
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Google AI is like an Eric Adams quote generator
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An amazing day of solidarity with staff, students, and community members saying NO to compulsory redundancies and unnecessary course closures.
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
An amazing day of solidarity with staff, students, and community members saying NO to compulsory redundancies and unnecessary course closures.
Just devastating. Most of my feed is rightfully outraged about the cuts to music (posed to become an "extra curricular" activity) but the cuts to modern languages are so grim too: if I understand correctly, it means no HE language provision on this side of the midlands www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Just devastating. Most of my feed is rightfully outraged about the cuts to music (posed to become an "extra curricular" activity) but the cuts to modern languages are so grim too: if I understand correctly, it means no HE language provision on this side of the midlands www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.
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This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.
In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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🧵 Awful awful massacre in Brazil
Gente, é o maior massacre no Brasil desde o Araguaia. Entendo quem quer puxar pra Canudos ou Contestado ou etc, mas não podemos livrar a ditadura de 64 só porque ela escondia melhor seus corpos.
Morreram 41 guerrilheiros comunistas e mais de 1200 camponeses no Araguaia.
Morreram 41 guerrilheiros comunistas e mais de 1200 camponeses no Araguaia.
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.
In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
+
In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
+
Ruh roh.
So I've been reading the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. There's some good things in there. But when it comes to universities there's very little to cheer. The situation is very tough and will get worse. The last chance to preserve what we've got has passed. Let me explain why. (1/?)
October 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Ruh roh.
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This is wild. The speakers they objected to are the local city councillor and the local MP whose ward/constituency include the university!
One has to wonder if they were so keen to invoke Prevent because one of the speakers was Muslim?
Absolutely Shellard-levels of bullying on display here.
One has to wonder if they were so keen to invoke Prevent because one of the speakers was Muslim?
Absolutely Shellard-levels of bullying on display here.
October 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This is wild. The speakers they objected to are the local city councillor and the local MP whose ward/constituency include the university!
One has to wonder if they were so keen to invoke Prevent because one of the speakers was Muslim?
Absolutely Shellard-levels of bullying on display here.
One has to wonder if they were so keen to invoke Prevent because one of the speakers was Muslim?
Absolutely Shellard-levels of bullying on display here.
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YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A PLANT
October 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A PLANT
Enjoying the chaotic drinks selection at my parents' local shop
October 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Enjoying the chaotic drinks selection at my parents' local shop
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Imagine if the infrastructure that our daily life depends on was organised according to some sort of coordinated plan, not just the chaotic outcome of billions of competitors each making decisions in the interests of profit, power, and convenience.
the aws outage should be evidence that running half the internet on a single company's servers is a terrible idea but i fear nothing will change
October 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Imagine if the infrastructure that our daily life depends on was organised according to some sort of coordinated plan, not just the chaotic outcome of billions of competitors each making decisions in the interests of profit, power, and convenience.
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one thing LLMs have revealed is that the belief that there is a magical incantation that will give you what you want is not just confined to pick-up artists and freemen on the land
Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.
October 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
one thing LLMs have revealed is that the belief that there is a magical incantation that will give you what you want is not just confined to pick-up artists and freemen on the land
I know the bar is high/low, but l feel like I've hit a new personal worst in algorithmic culture with Facebook pushing anti-mammogram content
October 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I know the bar is high/low, but l feel like I've hit a new personal worst in algorithmic culture with Facebook pushing anti-mammogram content
I mean, I appreciate the sentiment but I really think we should give proper credit to all the terrible non-AI art that exists.
May 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I mean, I appreciate the sentiment but I really think we should give proper credit to all the terrible non-AI art that exists.
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Our MA in Music is open for registration! This part-time, distance-learning course can be studied worldwide, and is designed to be completed over 2 years. Sign up at www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate.... The video introduces our free sample course, available @ouopenlearn.bsky.social youtu.be/YmpddzhAFiE
Introducing Music Research (Free course trailer)
YouTube video by OpenLearn from The Open University
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April 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Our MA in Music is open for registration! This part-time, distance-learning course can be studied worldwide, and is designed to be completed over 2 years. Sign up at www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate.... The video introduces our free sample course, available @ouopenlearn.bsky.social youtu.be/YmpddzhAFiE
I'm going to Brazil! Hyped to be presenting at the next iteration of Sonoridades in June. The conference's theme is 'Silences' and will be held in Vitoria (ES). I'll be talking about tinnitus' multiple relationships with silence, both literal and figurative, and their implications for sound studies
April 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I'm going to Brazil! Hyped to be presenting at the next iteration of Sonoridades in June. The conference's theme is 'Silences' and will be held in Vitoria (ES). I'll be talking about tinnitus' multiple relationships with silence, both literal and figurative, and their implications for sound studies
I didn't know I needed a country cover of Crass' 'do they owe us a living?' but here we are
March 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I didn't know I needed a country cover of Crass' 'do they owe us a living?' but here we are